The Bellanca TES (Tandem Experimental Sesquiplane) or Blue Streak was a
push-pull sesquiplane
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aircraft designed by
Giuseppe Mario Bellanca in 1929 for the first non-stop flight from Seattle to Tokyo.
Bellanca's Secret, Time, 1929-05-06
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In 1930 it was refitted with two 600 hp Curtiss Conqueror
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Design and de ...
engines and reinforced for the Chicago Daily News
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History
The ''Daily News'' was founded by Melville E. Stone, Percy Meggy, and William Doughert ...
as a cargo plane named ''The Blue Streak''.
The aircraft crashed on 26 May, 1931 when the rear propeller driveshaft broke due to vibration and all four on board lost their lives.
Specifications (with Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines)
References
Bibliography
* Alan Abel and Drina Welch Abel: ''Bellanca's Golden Age'', Stockton : Wild Canyon Books, 2004,
External links
Page dedicated to Shirley J. Short
Bellanca TES
images from the archive of San Diego Air & Space Museum
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1920s United States experimental aircraft
Twin-engined push-pull aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1929